What I use.

Daily driver. Theme: One Dark Pro. Mono: Geist Mono.

Agentic coding sidekick in the terminal.

Plus starship prompt and a few aliases I refuse to give up.

For long-running sessions and split panes during pentests.

Strict mode, always.

Default for new web work. RSC where it earns its keep.

CSS-first config. Tokens in @theme, no JSON config.

Reveals, scroll-driven, layout — all of it.

Postgres + auth + storage when I don't want to host a backend.

Streaming + tool use + provider-agnostic LLM glue.

Proxy + intruder + active scan. Daily.

Open-source fallback when Burp isn't around.

Quick recon, service version detection.

When something on the wire makes no sense.

Reproducible lab environments — vulnerable app + fix side-by-side.

Lab VM with everything pre-loaded.

Deploys, previews, edge functions, OG generation, analytics.

DNS, WAF, turnstile, R2 when I need cheap object storage.

CI for tests, audits, scheduled jobs.

Transactional email — like the one this site sends on contact.

For project tracking when collaborating.

Long-form notes, research, draft posts.

Launcher, clipboard history, snippets. Replaced Spotlight years ago.

Vault for secrets — never plaintext in repos.

Apple Silicon. Primary machine.

4K, for diff-checking and side-by-side workflow.

Tactile switches. Quieter than blues, louder than browns.

Focus mode + noise cancellation when shipping.